{"id":8372,"date":"2015-08-09T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=8372"},"modified":"2015-08-09T13:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T20:40:37","slug":"pro-football-hall-of-fame-member-broadcaster-francis-newton-frank-gifford-1930-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=8372","title":{"rendered":"Pro Football Hall of Fame Member &#038; Broadcaster Francis Newton &#8220;Frank&#8221; Gifford 1930 \u2013 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwich, CT&#8230;.Pro Football Hall of Famer, broadcaster &#038; husband of Kathie Lee Gifford has passed away at the age of 84.  He played for 12 seasons for the New York Giants and led them to a NFL Championship in 1956 over the Chicago Bears.  Frank Gifford was also a co-host of Monday Night Football for many years starting in 1971.  His family has released the following statement: <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8373\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8373\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ronald_Reagan_Christopher_Reeve.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ronald_Reagan_Christopher_Reeve.jpg\" alt=\"6\/12\/1983 President Reagan Christopher Reeve Frank Gifford hosting a reception and picnic in honor of the 15th Anniversary of the Special Olympics program in Diplomatic Reception Room\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ronald_Reagan_Christopher_Reeve.jpg 640w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ronald_Reagan_Christopher_Reeve-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ronald_Reagan_Christopher_Reeve-570x378.jpg 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ronald_Reagan_Christopher_Reeve-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ronald_Reagan_Christopher_Reeve-500x331.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">6\/12\/1983 President Reagan Christopher Reeve Frank Gifford hosting a reception and picnic in honor of the 15th Anniversary of the Special Olympics program in Diplomatic Reception Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt is with the deepest sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our beloved husband, father and friend, Frank Gifford. Frank died suddenly this beautiful Sunday morning of natural causes at his Connecticut home. We rejoice in the extraordinary life he was privileged to live, and we feel grateful and blessed to have been loved by such an amazing human being. We ask that our privacy be respected at this difficult time and we thank you for your prayers.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwich, CT&#8230;.Pro Football Hall of Famer, broadcaster &#038; husband of Kathie Lee Gifford has passed away at the age of 84. He played for 12 seasons for the New York Giants and led them to a NFL Championship in 1956 over the Chicago Bears. Frank Gifford was also a co-host of Monday Night Football for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-obituaries","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ronald_Reagan_Christopher_Reeve.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}